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glabrous, somewhat flattened, with 4 acuminate teeth on 

 the outer side, deft on the inner one, 5-ribbed, asymmetric, 

 0.6 cM. long, with some scales; corolla slightly curved, 

 glabrous, tube 0.7—1.2 cM. long, limb spreading, 5-lobed, 

 blue, upper half of the tube hairy within ; stamens inserted 

 about 0.6 cM. from the base of the corolla-tube, staminodes 

 with capitate apex, often unequal in length; style 0.6 cM., 

 with capitate stigma; ovary glabrous; fruit included in 

 the calyx, somewhat curved, elongate-pyriform, 0.45 cM. 

 long, shortly apiculate. ^ 



Caroline-Islands: Volkens no. 300., Yap, along the 

 roads, flow, on Jan. 4'h, 1900, imported. 



Java: Went in H. A. R— T. sub. no. 049898, Depok, 

 flow, on 26— IV— 1890. 



Banka: in H. A. R— T. sub no. 043920, flow, in 

 Sept. 1858. 



Distribution: tropical America, Sandwich-isl., Samoa, 

 New-Caledonia, Marianne-isl., Luzon, Java!, Sumatra, 

 Malacca, Brit. India, Mauritius, Madagascar, tropical 

 Africa. {Hallier, I.e.). 



Subtribe C. Prive^e. 



V. PRIVA Adans. fam. II, 505 (year?); Jussieu, Ann. 

 Mus. Par. VII, 75; Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. II, 2, 

 1145; Schauer. DC. Prodr, XI, 532; Englec u. Prantl. 

 Nat. Pfl. fam. IV, 3a, 155; Hook. f.. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 

 565. — Erect herbs; leaves opposite, membranous, petioled, 

 senate; ' inflorescences spicate, terminal or axillary, long 

 and slender; flowers in the axils of small bracts; bracteoles 

 none or very small; calyx nearly tubular at first, enlarged 

 in fruit, including it, with 5-teeth and 5 ribs; corolla 

 with cylindric, straight or curved tube; limb spreading, 

 oblique, somewhat 2-Hpped, 5-lobed; stamens 4, didy- 

 namous, inserted in the middle of the corolla-tube, included; 



